- Publisher: Pambazuka Press
- ISBN: 9780857490520
- Price: $21.95 CAD
- Publication Date: Jun 2012
- Rights: Canada
- Pages: 150
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Request Exam CopyAfrica to the Rescue of Africa
Sanou Mbaye
What has happened that the hopes born during decolonisation are now so dissipated? How can Africa escape its current impasse? Since independence, the development model imposed on Africa by the west has utterly failed but Sanou Mbaye shows that Africa already has the cards in its hands to carry out its own development. The author dissects the structural causes of the failure that has dragged African people into a spiral of poverty and violence. He makes western responsibilities clear without hiding those of Africa itself. His lucid, multi-dimensional analysis offers a wide range of innovative solutions which will allow Africans to take charge of their own development.
Sanou Mbaye shows how political, economic and financial reforms, legal action, and a programme of resource mobilisation could guarantee the renaissance African people dream of. Profoundly Pan-African, he argues persuasively for the necessity of overcoming narrow nationalist and ethnic thinking. He is convinced that solidarity amongst the people of Africa is the fertile ground out of which will grow the changes that will allow them to reclaim their identity, damaged by centuries of domination, and to fully realise themselves. Only Africa can bring its own problems to an end, and the author offers us a book full of hope about the future of the continent.
Contents
• Preface
• Introduction – The scourge of Africa: the neglected issues
• Africans as a footnote to history
• The capacity of Africans to harm each other’s interests
• The consequences of slavery and colonisation
1. The structural causes of poverty in Africa
• The global nature of poverty
• The international financial institutions: a dead end for African countries
• The misuse of official development assistance
• The WTO and the discriminatory trade practices of Western countries
• The CFA franc: a currency or a colonial relic?
• Financial institutions in francophone Africa
• Capital flight
• Brain drain
2. The African Union: a plan of action for African development
• Why has African unity failed?
• Giving a fresh boost to the African Union
• Ideological change
• Setting clear objectives
• Demonstrating political credibility within the African Union
• Mobilising our natural resources
• Towards a new conception of power
• Social and institutional reform
• A new development strategy for Africa
• Taking legal action
• An African security umbrella
• Peacekeeping operations in Africa
3. The African Union: a new global power balance
• Globalisation and the need for unity
• A shift in world power relations
• Conclusion
• Appendix–The Manden Charter or Manden Kalikan
• List of abbreviations and acronyms
• Acknowledgements
• Index
About the Author
Sanou Mbaye is an economic columnist and a former senior official with the African Development Bank (ADB).